Conformational effects of peripheral substituents and axial ligands in sterically crowded porphyrins
- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
Crystallographic results for peripherally substituted porphyrins illustrate effects of steric crowding, axial ligation and {pi}-{pi} interactions on the structures of metalloporphyrins that begin to resemble the architectures found for porphyrinic prosthetic groups and chromophores in vivo. (1) Metalloporphyrins with multiple peripheral substituents can adopt planar, saddled, ruffled or {open_quotes}wavy{close_quotes} conformations that persist upon axial ligation of the metal. (2) In porphyrins with substituents at all peripheral positions, the substituents form pockets that force the axial ligands to align in specific orientations relative to each other and to the axes defined by the porphyrin estrogens. (3) The enforced alignment of the axial ligands caused by the substituent pocket prevents aromatic ligands from rotating around the coordination axis with intriguing consequences: the axial ligands can be forced to tip off axis because of steric crowding by adjacent molecules in the crystal lattice. (4) In porphyrins with meso substituents only, the axial ligands are free to rotate but {pi}-{pi} interactions and collacial stacking between adjacent molecules in the crystal also induce off-axis ligand tilts.
- OSTI ID:
- 560195
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970443--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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